Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Bob Sanders <rsanders@×××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:18:28
Message-Id: 20100209151759.GB835270@sgi.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically by Jim Seymour
1 Jim Seymour, mused, then expounded:
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3 > that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not seem to be the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I can get this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the xdm.log are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and then killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc.
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6 Sometimes it takes just rebuilding the device drivers, which can be
7 found by the gine in the xorg-server ebuild -
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9 emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/
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11 Take that output and emerge the drivers.
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13 Bob
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lost ability to log in graphically Andrew Long <jandrewlong@×××××.com>